Just so I don't get accused of ignoring yet another absurd point...

No, I can't say I don't have any translated styles, or even some mp3's...

But I am NOT trying to excuse it or say that it is legal...

It may indeed be a common practice. Doesn't make it legal or ethical, though.

The point I think you are missing, James, is the degree of scale. Spectrasonics didn't set out to clone each and every factory preset in a current commercial product. In fact, the reason their products are so popular is that they made BETTER sounds than the originals, by combining stacks of synths, and the amazing sound design of Eric Persing. But what you are proposing is the outright cloning of an entire instrument, for the sole purpose of not having to buy it in the first place (but you SURE want to use their sounds) to be able to play its' styles...

If you can't see that as a paradigm shift from what synth samplers were doing, I honestly believe you are not trying.